Obama payback?

There is a breaking story from Ireland that Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York paid off “pedophile” (i.e. homosexual) priests to leave the Church, when he was the Archbishop of Milwaukee.

Guess who happens to be the US bishop who is leading the American bishops’ fight against Obamacare? Now, any American with an ounce of awareness knows that Obama is nothing more than a ruthless Chicago thug and a George Soros puppet, so a little basic speculative arithmetic as to the timing of this is in order here: 2 (you fight my health care bill) + 2 (I send my operatives to dig up dirt on you) = 4 (I destroy your credibility in public).

When priests are ordained and incardinated into a diocese, that bishop and his successors are obligated to take those priests into their household, so to speak, by making sure that they always get a stipend. If somebody is not safe to be a priest anymore and has to be laicized, that obligation of the bishop doesn’t really end. Setting up a trust to pay them stipends and make sure they don’t starve in the streets seems practical.

Now, if this was in lieu of reporting these priests and getting them criminal prosecution by the state, that would be different. But getting them out of the priesthood was surely better than leaving them in?

I find this a bit weird to complain about, also, because many dioceses treat their active priests like crud, when it comes to making sure they’re financially okay. Dolan has always seemed like the kind of bishop who wants all the finances squared away and nothing forgotten.

Now, if this was in lieu of reporting these priests and getting them criminal prosecution by the state, that would be different. But getting them out of the priesthood was surely better than leaving them in?

Yes, Mark Shea noted that as well. So imagine the alternative. Say the went through an entire legal process to get rid of them. Say the priest wants to stall and continue that process and keep getting paychecks during the time. Would the press be patting the Church on the back for making the extra effort? No. The headlines would scream “Pedophile priests still on the diocesan payroll!”

Wouldn’t the most logical thing to do be to fire and stop paying someone who abused children while working for your organization. Canon law or no canon law, you don’t continue to support pedophiles. If Rome orders otherwise, let Rome pay them.